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Polio Vaccination Campaign Launched in East of Afghanistan
Officials of Ministry of Public Health in Nangharhar province launched a polio vaccination campaign in eastern parts of Afghanistan, saying one million children age 0 to 5 year old will be vaccinated by the cooperation of 4480 health workers in Nangarhar, Kunar, Laghman and Nuristan provinces of Afghanistan.
They also said more than 22,000 children deprived from polio vaccination due to the insecurity problems in the previous vaccination drive, but they have reached an agreement with the anti-government insurgents to let the campaign successfully be implemented.
Deputy Chief of Health department in Nangarhar, Muqadasa Maraj said, “One million children will be vaccinated by the 4480 health workers in east part of Afghanistan, where 700,000 kids from Nangarhar are among the current polio vaccination drive, fortunately this time every children will be vaccinated.”
Meanwhile religious scholars called the residents to cooperate with the health workers to vaccinate the children.
Representative of department of Haji and religious of Nangarhar Lalaltan Hemat said, “Polio vaccination will benefit the children, I ask all the families to cooperate the health workers to vaccine the kids age zero up to 5 year old, and there is no restriction in Islam religion that say do not vaccinate.”
In meantime a tribal elder Mohammad Anwar insisted on both male and female kids to be vaccinated.
He said, “No kids should leave behind, polio vaccination should be practiced equally over both male and female kids, if one Child doesn’t receive polio vaccination he/she will be disabled and burden to his/her family for 40 years.”
Based on the Information of the Public Health department of Nangarhar 3 positive cases of polio were registered in Kunar province last year.
Reported by: Lida Naizi
Officials at the Ministry of Rural Rehabilitation and Development (MRRD) say 7,000 incomplete projects of the World Bank are at risk of destruction in Afghanistan. They call on the World Bank to resume the work of these projects.
According to them, discussions have been held with the World Bank about these projects, but there has been no result yet.
“7,000 incomplete projects are being destroyed, and if the work is not started, these projects will be destroyed. We ask the World Bank to resume the work of these projects as soon as possible,” said Noorul Hadi Adel, the spokesperson of MRRD.
Meanwhile, members of the private sector also ask international institutions to resume their work in Afghanistan.
According to the officials of this sector, with the start of these projects, job opportunities will be provided for thousands of people in the country.
“These projects create employment for our people and the country will grow a lot,” said Mirwais Hajizadeh, a member of the private sector.
However, economic experts stated if the work of these projects does not start soon, they will be destroyed and the investments made in them will be wasted.
Ten people have been killed and six others injured by floods in Helmand province in the past week, local officials said on Friday.
According to officials, seven of those were members of the same family, and they were killed in Kajaki district last night.
“Most of the people moved from vulnerable areas to high lands and mountains, and thanks Allah the number of casualties is low,” Sher Mohammad Vahdat, the head of information of the Directorate of Information and Culture in Helmand, said adding rescue teams and security forces have been dispatched to help people.
It is said that the telecommunication system has also been disrupted due to the effect of floods in Kajaki district. Floods have also destroyed thousands of acres of agricultural land.
Roza Otunbayeva, the UN Secretary General’s Special Representative for Afghanistan, met with the Indian Foreign Minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar in New Delhi and discussed issues related to Afghanistan, it was announced on Thursday.
During the meeting, Otunbayeva thanked India for “its critical humanitarian support and longstanding friendship for the Afghan people” and discussed the importance of regional and international cooperation to address prevailing challenges in Afghanistan, UNAMA said on X.
Jaishankar also said on X that the sides exchanged views on the current situation in Afghanistan.
“Underlined that India has provided wheat, medicines, pesticides and school supplies. Appreciate the role of UN agencies as partners in these endeavors,” he said.
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